Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-13

fight on the right side. Now when !
these, our Christian friends who had
natural and powerful military spirit.
entered heaven, they entered the
celestial army.
The door of heaven hardly opens but ,
you hear a military demonstration.
David cried out: ..The chariots of
God are twenty thousand Elisha
saw the mountains filled with celestial
cavalry. At. John said: The armies
which are in heaven followed him on
horses" Now, when those who had
the military spirit on earth san ;tiiied
entered glory, | suppose they right
away enlisted in some heavenly cam
paign. they volunteered right away.
There must needs be in heaven soldiers
with a soldierly spirit. There are
grand parade days when the king re-
views the troops. There must be an
armed escort sent out to bring up from
earth to heaven those who were more
than c%onduerers. There must DO
crusades ever being fitted out for some
part of Gods dominion-battles, blood
less, groanless, painless. Angels of
evil to be fought down and fought
back. Other rebellious worlds to be
conquered. Worlds to be put to the
torch. Worlds to be saved. Worlds
to be demolished. Worlds to be sunk.
WORLDS TO BE HoIsTED.
Beside that, in our own world there
are battles for the right and against
the wrong where we must have the
Heavenly military. That is what
keeps us christian reformers SO buoy
ant. So few good men against 50
many bad men, s % few churches
against so many gr%og-shops, so few
pure printing presses against so many
polluted printing presses; and yet we
are %buoyant and courageous, because
while we know that the armies Of evil
in the world are larger in number than
the army of the trush, there are celes-
ital cohorts in the air fighting on our
side.
have not so much faith in the army
of the ground as | have in the army in
the air. o. God! open IL eyes that
we may see them. The military spirits
that went up from earth to join the
military spirits before the throne
Joshua, and Caleb. and Gideon and
David, and Samson. and the hundreds
Of christian warriors who on earth
fought with ileshly arm, and now hav-
ing gone up or high are coming down
the hills Of heaven ready to fight
among the invisibles. Yoader they
are-coming, coming. Did you not
hear them rs they swept by?
But what are our mathematical
friends to do in the next world? They
found their JOY and their delight in
mathematics. There was more poetry
for them in Euclid than in John Nj lton.
They were as ~passionately fond of
mathematics as Plato. who wrote over
his door: .'Let no one enter here who
is not acquainted with gesmetry."
What are they doing nowp They are
busy with figures yet. No place in all
the
UNIAERSE LIKE HEAVEN
for figures. Numbers Infinite, distance
infinite, calculations infinite. The di-
dactic DR.. Dick said he really thought
that the redeemed in Heaven spent
some of thsir time with the higher
branches of mathematics.
Some of our transferred and trans
ported NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. What are they
doing nowP Studying the human
mind, only under better circumstance
than they used to study it. They used
to study the mind sheathed in the dull
hnman body. Now the spirit un-
sheathed-now they are studying the
sword outside the scabbard. Have you
any doubt about what Sir William
Hamilton is doing in heaven, or what
Jonathan Edwards is doing in heaven,
or the multitudes on earth who had a
passion for metaphysics sanctitied by
the grace of Godp No difficulty in
guessing. Metaphysics, glorious met,
aphysics, everlasting metaphysics.
What ere our departed Christian
friends who are exploring doing now7
Exploring yet, but with lightning loco.
motion, with vision microscopic and
telescope at the same time. A cont.
nent at a glance.
A WORLD IN A SECOND.
A planetary system in a day. Chris
tian John Franklin no more in disabled
"Ecebus" pushing toward the north
pole, Jeanette from the ice, Christian
livingstone no more amid African ma
larias trying to make revelations of a
dark continent; but ali Of them in the
twinkling of an eye taking in that
which was unapproachable. Mount
Blan scaled without alpenstock. The
coral depths of the ocean explored
without a diving bell. The mountains
unbarred and opened without Sir Hum
phrey Days safety lamp.
What are our departed friends who
found their chief joy in study doing
nowp Studying yet, but instead Of IL
few thousand volumes on a few shelves.
all the volumes Of the universe open
before them-geologic, o~rnithologic,
conchologic. botanic, astronomic. phil
osophic. No more need of Leydcn
jars, or voltaic piles, or electric bat
%teries. standing as they do face TO face
with the facts Of the universe. What
are the historians doing nowP Study.
ing history yet but not the history of
n few centuries Of our planet only, but
the history OF the eternities-whole